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Up for sale. How many Holyhead characters have passed through those doors? Have you? I can recall going to a Christmas "drink" there years ago and being rather under the influence I went into #1 court and climbed up into the judges pulpit, sat in his chair and banged the gavel shouting for "Silence in Court!"

Remember when the lovely people would be smoking and swearing at the top of their voices, wearing dirty ill fitting shell suits opposite Chadwicks

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IT IS RASCALS BIRTHDAY BEFORE MONKEY FIDDLERS!!! STILL!!! Oooh, it's all "Wils, Wils, Wils!" Rascal bach, you have no idea how hard I'm laughing at your last post. You are so funny.I think Rascal should apologise for Wils - seriously!

When I was a boy, I could see in the police station and see them playing snooker, from my bedroom window.

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IT IS RASCALS BIRTHDAY BEFORE MONKEY FIDDLERS!!! STILL!!! Oooh, it's all "Wils, Wils, Wils!" Rascal bach, you have no idea how hard I'm laughing at your last post. You are so funny.I think Rascal should apologise for Wils - seriously!

When I was a boy, I could see in the police station and see them playing snooker, from my bedroom window.

Walking up the path from the library also gave you a perfect view. My cousins lived round there and I used to love going to see them, there was always loads of children to play with. 60 kids in a football match is exciting! I came from Kingsland which seemed to have a low child/adult ratio.

I have been in the Holyhead Magistrates Court as a defendant. While I waited for the doors to open I stood outside in a well fitted grey suit and matching tie and quietly discussed crimes with another defendant. I felt very vulnerable as passers by smirked at me and wondered how my day would end.

My new acquaintance had done work for a farmer who then refused to pay him. In a fit of pique he kicked over 200 cabbages. He was charged with Criminal Damage. It was then I realised that crime doesn't pay.

In the court building the usher would not allow me through to Court #1 to hear my case. I, along with 2432 others had been charged and summonsed. We were to be tried, judged and sentenced "in absentia". 4 other defendants beside me had turned up to the court to answer for their crime.

I had previously indicated I would plead guilty and so was duly found guilty; the usher told me to go home, that the court would be writing to me to advise details of my rehabilitation.

I'm no recidivist so duly completed my rehabilitation and paid my debt to society with alacrity.

Quakers believed in living in such honesty that an oath could add nothing to what they said.

One of the Quaker founding fathers George Fox said when arrested and asked to swear the oath of allegiance: "Our allegiance [does] not lie in oaths but in truth and faithfulness."

When handed a Bible to swear on, Fox opened it at the verse that read, "Swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath" - a rather awkward text for the book that people are supposed to swear on.

And what of other faiths - are their sacred texts accepted in law? The Koran, the Guru Granth Sahib, the Hebrew Bible, and the Christian scriptures in various languages and in Protestant and Catholic editions.

There would be no point in me swearing on the Bible, I don't follow its teachings in a formal sense. It must have some influence on my life however, having been brought up in a Christian society and school.

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IT IS RASCALS BIRTHDAY BEFORE MONKEY FIDDLERS!!! STILL!!! Oooh, it's all "Wils, Wils, Wils!" Rascal bach, you have no idea how hard I'm laughing at your last post. You are so funny.I think Rascal should apologise for Wils - seriously!

IT IS RASCALS BIRTHDAY BEFORE MONKEY FIDDLERS!!! STILL!!! Oooh, it's all "Wils, Wils, Wils!" Rascal bach, you have no idea how hard I'm laughing at your last post. You are so funny.I think Rascal should apologise for Wils - seriously!